Day: March 7, 2019

  • Key West Just Banned Popular Sunscreens and Here’s Why

    Key West Just Banned Popular Sunscreens and Here’s Why

    The city of Key West, one of Florida’s most visited cities, has joined Hawaii and the country of Palau to ban sunscreen lotions with the chemicals oxybenzone and octinoxate in efforts to protect their own coral reefs. Oxybenzone and octinoxate are commonly used chemicals in most popular, store brand sunscreens. The ban had been approved…